Chapter 50: Disliked Again

"Xu~"

Soon, the sound of Lao Sun driving a bicycle could be heard in the yard.

Li Guoqiang took a closer look and found that in addition to the large donkey cart in the yard, there was also a small mule cart.

No wonder he heard the donkey's bray just now!
It turns out that the big donkey is worried that his position is threatened, and is competing with the little mule!
Just when Li Guoqiang couldn't help but sigh that even livestock had competitive pressure, Xu Guangfu also walked towards the door with a few people.

"Hey, young man, why did you come out alone? It's cold outside, come inside and warm up!"

After saying that, Xu Guangfu stretched out his hand and dragged Li Guoqiang, who was still in a daze, into the house.

After a while, six or seven people ran into the house. Together with Shao Ruian and others who were already in the house, the outer room was immediately filled to the brim.

Afterwards, Tian Guixiang hurriedly invited Lao Sun and others to go into the inner room and get on the kang, and by the way, she brought half a bowl of corn cakes and a plate of pickles left by Shao Ruian and others to the kang table.

Xu Guangfu asked Shao Ruian and others if they were full. If they were, they should follow him into the inner room and complete the settlement procedures first.

Upon hearing this, Li Guoqiang immediately took out his ID from his pocket and followed Xu Guangfu into the inner room.

Seeing this, Shao Ruian and others hurriedly quickened their chewing speed and finished the remaining corn cakes and cornmeal porridge in no time. Then they hurried into the inner room, fearing that they would miss anything.

At this time, Xu Guangfu had already collected Li Guoqiang's identity certificate, and then asked a short middle-aged man with a big belly and a shrewd face to copy down Li Guoqiang's identity information.

According to Xu Guangfu, this smiling man is named Sun Maocai. He is the clerk of their Jinshanbao Production Brigade. In some places, he is also called the branch secretary. He is specifically responsible for handling various correspondence documents and personnel files of the production brigade.

The two of them and another big and strong female director, Ma Chunmei, are the three giants here. Basically, nothing can get around them.

In addition, the brigade cadres present included the honest custodian Ma Changshun, the rough and bold militia company commander Xu Guanglu, and the serious-looking brigade accountant Xu Yuliang.

As for the rickshaw driver Lao Sun, who looks a bit like Su Daqiang, and his apprentice Sun Jinwang, they are both members of the brigade, but their jobs are better than those of ordinary members.

From this we can also see that Jinshan Fort is mainly composed of families with the surnames Xu, Sun and Ma. Among them, the Xu surname has the greatest strength, while the Sun and Ma surnames are about the same.

This is undoubtedly good news for Li Guoqiang and others.

Because compared to those villages where only one family dominates, the situation of three parties here will undoubtedly be more stable and harmonious.

Not long after, Sun Maocai helped Shao Ruian and others to complete their settlement registration one after another. The next step was to report their identity information to the police station in the town, and their household registration would be registered in the collective household registration of Jinshanbao Production Brigade.

At the same time, this also means that they have become part of Jinshanbao and have the same obligations and rights as other members.

However, having said that, there are still some differences in essence.

Unless Li Guoqiang and his family really get married and have children here, they will never be able to become locals.

Afterwards, under Xu Guangfu's arrangement, Li Guoqiang and others and the brigade cadres present formally got to know each other, and then they started to collect rations.

According to the food ration standard approved by superiors this year, the daily food ration for each adult laborer is 3 taels of fine grains and 1.5 jin of coarse grains, so the food ration for half a year is 54 jin of fine grains and 270 jin of coarse grains.

Among them, fine grains are mainly 70% rice and 30% wheat.

Coarse grains include corn, potatoes, sweet potatoes, and various beans.

最终，李国强等人各自都领到了38斤大米、16斤小麦、160斤苞米、50斤土豆、50斤地瓜，还有10斤豆子。如果没有钱和粮票去采购新的粮食，那么这些粮食就是他们未来半年的口粮了。

Under normal circumstances, an adult should eat at least one kilogram of food every day if he has enough meat, eggs and vegetables to supplement his nutrition.

Therefore, the food they received could at most just keep them from going hungry. It was impossible for them to have a full stomach or a delicious meal.

Even so, it is much better than that in the Northwest.

Therefore, after getting the food, the expressions on the faces of Shao Ruian and others were relatively relaxed, not to mention Li Guoqiang who was protected by Dad Jin.

From beginning to end, he never worried about food and other daily necessities. What he was worried about now was whether he could find a good family to stay with.

He doesn't want someone to argue with him about trivial matters every day.

Soon, after finishing the relevant matters, Sun Maocai, Ma Chunmei, Ma Changshun, Xu Guanglu, Xu Yuliang, Lao Sun, and Sun Jinwang all left in a hurry, as if they did not want Li Guoqiang and others to target them for accommodation.

Upon seeing this, Xu Guangfu hurriedly asked Lao Sun and Sun Jinwang to drive donkey carts and horse carriages to notify each household, asking those who were willing to give Li Guoqiang and others lodging to quickly send a representative to discuss the matter with Li Guoqiang.

Afterwards, he saw that Li Guoqiang and others looked somewhat disappointed, but he did not say anything, because in this village, any family with a decent life would not want Li Guoqiang and others to stay overnight at their home, and that naturally included him.

The reason behind this, not to mention the inconvenience of the eldest daughter-in-law and the younger girls, as well as the older brothers and younger boys in the family, just the various eating and drinking expenses in daily life will cause a lot of trouble.

Therefore, only those families who are in financial difficulty and don't have to worry about being taken advantage of by others would want to take this opportunity to earn some accommodation fees to help support their family.

These matters had been discussed in the village for some time before Li Guoqiang and others arrived.

If there weren't any empty houses in the village that could be rented to Li Guoqiang and others for temporary residence, things wouldn't have become as troublesome as they are now.

Not long after, just as Li Guoqiang was thinking about how he could build a house of his own as soon as possible, more than a dozen people came in one after another.

Then, under Xu Guangfu's introduction, these people turned their attention to Li Guoqiang and others, as if they were on a blind date.

After a while, they each chose the person they liked, gathered together and whispered about where to stay. There was even a situation where several families were competing for one person.

Only Li Guoqiang was still standing alone at the side, with no one coming forward to ask him questions.

When he saw this situation, he immediately realized that his frail appearance made people dislike him again.

He felt helpless and aggrieved about this.

Although he was confident that he could make his body stronger day by day, he had no way of guaranteeing this to others.

Now, the only thing he could do was to wait for the villagers to pick Shao Ruian and others, and then take the initiative to have a good talk with those villagers who failed to pick anyone, to see if they could put aside their concerns about his physical condition and agree to let him stay overnight.

However, what he didn't expect was that those villagers who failed to pick someone immediately turned around and left after seeing that they had no chance, without giving him a chance to speak at all, which almost made him laugh.

Just when he was thinking about whether he should just stay at Xu Guangfu's house, he suddenly saw a little girl with a dirty face and two pigtails on the back of her head push open the door and run in.

Then, the little girl looked at everyone in the room timidly, then immediately ran to Xu Guangfu and said loudly in a crisp voice: "Grandpa Fu, I'm here to take people back to my home!"

As soon as these words were spoken, everyone turned their eyes to the little girl, with looks of surprise, confusion, sympathy, pity, amusement, disdain, and a hint of surprise in their eyes.

(End of this chapter)